I've been shooting this idea around the minecraft community and so far it's been pretty well liked, how about a mining helmet with a torch on the top of it? I mean, it is Minecraft after all, it'd help mining alot... but it'd need a little dedication to make, so I thought of something like this:

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Iron Bar x4. I figured wool would catch on fire from the torch, and wood also posed the same risk\was too easy to get. It takes a little effort to get some iron, and the bottom ingredient is a piece of string -- also a sort of rare item in current minecraft. The torch requires you to find coal which is easy, but I still think the item makes sense.

Notch received many e-mails about adding holdable torches in the past and (to my knowledge) denied them due to the mass amounts of light calculations that would be necessary for a constantly moving light source.So, unless he works more magic (which he very well may) its not likely to show up.

But, it's still a solid idea right? I understand the difficulty in execution, but I hope my thoughts in general weren't wasted. I tried to think of a clever way to craft it without it being too easy since it'd be a rewarding\desirable item.

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